[Detective Conan] I Had to Revive My Alternate-Universe Self to Get Paid Time Off

To get paid leave, I had no choice but to revive my counterparts in other worlds.

Abe Saitori: I get it, but doesn't this count as overtime?

Abe Saitori accidentally observed the existence of parallel worlds one day, and then got hit with a "huge surprise."

At first, she thought it was just a fluke, but as the number of parallel worlds she observed grew, Abe Saitori realized something was wrong.

After careful consideration, she called in the already graduated Rei Furuya and asked, with a look of deep anguish, "What do you think about 5-4=0?"

Rei Furuya had finally managed to get some time off. "?" Had their captain finally been driven mad by the experiments?

Then he learned that in dozens of parallel worlds, his counterparts had lost their friends young and walked alone through the darkness. Rei Furuya, with a happy family, fellow trainees turned comrades-in-arms, and a childhood friend who regularly fed him, stared in shock. "What is wrong with all of you? Why are you all so miserable?!"

Abe Saitori wore an expression of utter despair. The dark side of those worlds was so rampant it scared her a little. It made their own world seem far too utopian, giving her a very bad feeling.

Bad news: Her hunch came true.

Good news: There was a way to fix it.

With the support of the higher-ups, Abe Saitori set up a new department to retrieve people from parallel worlds. But because of the restrictions between worlds, the only people who could go, apart from her, were those who also existed in the other worlds. That meant her unlucky comrades-in-arms, Rei Furuya and Hiromitsu Morofushi, as well as outside consultant Shinichi Kudo, who was still in school... and others.

In short: Come on, we're going to retrieve your counterparts!

It's just... a few little mishaps always seem to happen during the rescue missions.

"Why did a certain cafe worker suddenly call in sick while on his way to work? Was it to follow someone?"

"Why was Officer Takaaki Morofushi's house burgled, when the only thing stolen was his little brother's phone?"

*Scotland, who was supposed to be dead, seems to have come back to life and is sniping Organization members. Why is he wounding them but not killing them? Is it for a living sacrifice?* (Abe Saitori: Wait, what's this one about? Who's being sacrificed alive??)

*After being rescued from a high-rise explosion, Officer Hagiwara declares he'll repay his savior by offering himself in marriage?*

"We are neither gods nor demons, but we will turn back the tide of time and bring the dead back to life."

"May every regret be made right."

"The existence of our world proves that a world doesn't have to be filled with thorns. They, too, should be able to smile freely beneath the sun."

1. I started a new story on a whim, with no outline. If I had to describe it, it's about rescuing people (?). Updates whenever. As usual, there are tons of headcanons and a whole lot of out-of-character writing. It doesn't follow the main plot. We rescue people and run, probably at breakneck speed?

2. Abe Saitori is a woman who claims to be 25. She uses magic in a technologically advanced world but insists it's just a combination of technology and medicine, and that everyone else is too useless to learn it.

3. Mainly rescuing the police academy squad. Yes, I love them. Sob, who hasn't cried over 5-4=0?

4. No couples. We're too busy saving people to have time for romance.

5. I accept all negative reviews, but I'll cry about them (?).

This blurb was first written on December 10, 2023, and revised on January 13, 2024.

Theme: Everyone should be free to live beneath the sun